Einar Wigen

• Wigen, Einar; Topal, Alp Eren & Trombino, Carlo (2026). The Last Great Plague of Istanbul, 1812: An Overture to Biopolitics in the Ottoman Empire. Journal of the history of medicine and allied sciences. ISSN 0022-5045. doi: 10.1093/jhmas/jrag031. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Starting in 1812, a plague epidemic killed a third of the population in Istanbul and a third of the population of Izmir. It lasted at least until 1819 and killed some 500,000 people across the Balkans and the eastern and southern coasts of the Mediterranean, including Malta, Algiers, and Bucharest. Historians have neither examined what this epidemic meant for life in the Empire’s capital, nor spelt out what it meant for the Empire’s future. In fact, the magnitude of the epidemic has been largely missed in the few descriptive studies that exist, possibly due to the silence of Ottoman state archives on the topic of plague. Plague epidemics had until then been a common occurrence, but the extent of this outbreak made it among the deadliest in the capital’s history. It also made Istanbul stand out in contrast to European cities, few of which had experienced major plague epidemics for generations. It furthermore sparked a flurry of Ottoman medical writings, including how to deal with epidemics. These writings, the increased social position of medical doctors in Ottoman politics, and the immediate experience of the epidemic itself are important for understanding how the Ottomans dealt with the cholera epidemic of 1831 and as a context for the introduction of quarantine in 1838. Beyond that, the epidemic came right before one of the most turbulent decades of the Empire, in which it witnessed the Greek revolt (1821) and abolition of Janissaries (1826), culminating in the brutal restoration of political power to the palace and the initiation of modernising structural reforms. The 1812 epidemic holds a key to understanding Ottoman death and reproduction in the nineteenth century.

• Wigen, Einar & Caraccioli, Mauro J. (2026). Conclusion. In Caraccioli, Mauro & Wigen, Einar (Ed.), Interlingual Relations: Global Politics in a Polyglot World. University of Michigan Press. ISSN 9780472077861. p. 279–284. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  International politics is often conducted in two languages or more, and since no two languages are exactly the same, what is possible to say in one language may be impossible to say in another. Translation is at the heart of global politics, and interlingual relations traverse time, space, culture, and state borders. Interlingual Relations builds on emergent literature on translation in International Relations (IR) to propose a unique research agenda for scholars of global politics, offering multiple directions and sets of principles for sustained study. The contributors use various methodologies to explore these interfaces and encounters in different sites, bringing together multiple subfields, approaches, and disciplinary paradigms across IR’s history. Together they offer a more truly global perspective on international affairs, going beyond the hegemony of English to demonstrate the interconnectedness between “high” politics and everyday life. They show the role of translation in global politics as one of world-making, whereby social roles, rules, and responsibilities establish the semblance of order despite not sounding or meaning the same to all actors. In establishing Interlingual Relations as a foundational part of IR, the book offers another key to studying global interactions and the high political stakes in the theories, methods, and ethics of translation.

• Wigen, Einar (2026). The Interlingual Configurations of International Politics. In Caraccioli, Mauro & Wigen, Einar (Ed.), Interlingual Relations: Global Politics in a Polyglot World. University of Michigan Press. ISSN 9780472077861. p. 29–47. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  International politics is often conducted in two languages or more, and since no two languages are exactly the same, what is possible to say in one language may be impossible to say in another. Translation is at the heart of global politics, and interlingual relations traverse time, space, culture, and state borders. Interlingual Relations builds on emergent literature on translation in International Relations (IR) to propose a unique research agenda for scholars of global politics, offering multiple directions and sets of principles for sustained study. The contributors use various methodologies to explore these interfaces and encounters in different sites, bringing together multiple subfields, approaches, and disciplinary paradigms across IR’s history. Together they offer a more truly global perspective on international affairs, going beyond the hegemony of English to demonstrate the interconnectedness between “high” politics and everyday life. They show the role of translation in global politics as one of world-making, whereby social roles, rules, and responsibilities establish the semblance of order despite not sounding or meaning the same to all actors. In establishing Interlingual Relations as a foundational part of IR, the book offers another key to studying global interactions and the high political stakes in the theories, methods, and ethics of translation.

• Caraccioli, Mauro J. & Wigen, Einar (2026). Introduction, Global Politics in a Polyglot World. In Caraccioli, Mauro & Wigen, Einar (Ed.), Interlingual Relations: Global Politics in a Polyglot World. University of Michigan Press. ISSN 9780472077861. p. 1–26. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  International politics is often conducted in two languages or more, and since no two languages are exactly the same, what is possible to say in one language may be impossible to say in another. Translation is at the heart of global politics, and interlingual relations traverse time, space, culture, and state borders. Interlingual Relations builds on emergent literature on translation in International Relations (IR) to propose a unique research agenda for scholars of global politics, offering multiple directions and sets of principles for sustained study. The contributors use various methodologies to explore these interfaces and encounters in different sites, bringing together multiple subfields, approaches, and disciplinary paradigms across IR’s history. Together they offer a more truly global perspective on international affairs, going beyond the hegemony of English to demonstrate the interconnectedness between “high” politics and everyday life. They show the role of translation in global politics as one of world-making, whereby social roles, rules, and responsibilities establish the semblance of order despite not sounding or meaning the same to all actors. In establishing Interlingual Relations as a foundational part of IR, the book offers another key to studying global interactions and the high political stakes in the theories, methods, and ethics of translation.

• Lahijani, Alireza Shams & Wigen, Einar (2025). ‘Resilient nation’: Iran’s pandemic response as status-seeking. Cambridge Review of International Affairs. ISSN 0955-7571. p. 1–25. doi: 10.1080/09557571.2025.2464933. Full text in Research Archive
• Heiskanen, Jaakko; MacKay, Joseph; Neumann, Iver Brynild; Wigen, Einar; Eskild, Ingrid & Hall, Martin [Show all 10 contributors for this article] (2024). Nomads and international relations: post-sedentarist dialogues. Cambridge Review of International Affairs. ISSN 0955-7571. doi: 10.1080/09557571.2024.2426782. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  The key concepts and reference points of International Relations (IR) are informed by a sedentarist worldview anchored on the territorial state. IR’s conception of its subject-matter is thus ‘static’ in both senses of the word: state-centric and immobile. One of the consequences of this sedentarist worldview has been a neglect of the world’s nomads. Defined by their spatial mobility, nomads have been either ignored or, less frequently, brought in as an exceptional ‘Other’ against which concepts such as statehood and territoriality can be defined. The interventions in this forum challenge IR’s sedentarism by recovering the world’s nomads as international political actors past and present, thus enriching the range of empirical cases upon which IR scholars may build their theories and challenging teleological narratives that view the history of the international system as the inevitable triumph of the territorial state. At the same time, the forum cautions against the reification of the nomad as the ‘Other’ of the state by disaggregating nomadism from mobility and problematising the sedentarism/nomadism binary. The goal of the forum is not to provide a blueprint for how IR scholars should study nomads, but to promote a critical reflexivity about IR’s sedentarist assumptions.

• Topal, Alp Eren & Wigen, Einar (2024). Siyaset or Politika? The Emergence of Modern Vocabulary of Rule in the Ottoman Empire. Contributions to the History of Concepts. ISSN 1807-9326. 19(2), p. 65–88. doi: 10.3167/choc.2024.190204. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  In this article, we trace the diversification of Ottoman political vocabulary from the eighteenth century to the mid-nineteenth in a time of dynastic restoration and administrative modernization. We focus particularly on the transformation of the concept siyâset (rule, politics) which had been in use in Muslim polities for centuries, and the emergence, in the late eighteenth century, of the word politika which has come to be used alongside siyâset since then. In making sense of this bifurcation, we demonstrate that the Ottoman elite conceptions of politics were not simply replaced by the European conceptions. Rather, the equivalence of siyâset and politika was clearly contested by Ottoman statesmen, and the political terminology of rule and administration evolved in tandem with the material transformation of the Ottoman dynasty and state.

• Leira, Halvard; Wigen, Einar & Lahijani, Alireza Shams (2024). Of Nomadism, Diplomacy and the Duty of Not Becoming a One-Trick-Pony. In Leira, Halvard; Lahijani, Alireza Shams & Wigen, Einar (Ed.), Uses of Iver Neumann. Nothing international is alien. Routledge. ISSN 9781032708201. doi: 10.4324/9781032708225-1. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This chapter introduces the edited collection celebrating Iver B. Neumann's work. The chapter places Neumann in a Norwegian and an international context, summarises his work and introduces the rest of the volume.

• Wigen, Einar & Neumann, Iver Brynild (2023). Where Did the Mongol Empire Go? The Presences of a Eurasian Steppe-Nomadic Past. In Schlichte, Klaus & Stetter, Stephan (Ed.), The Historicity of International Politics: Imperialism and the Presence of the Past. Cambridge University Press. ISSN 9781009199056. p. 123–137. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  It would be wrong to assume that only European imperial pasts are present in the contemporary international system, having left their marks on historical polities that are kept up by today’s polities. The steppe tradition is still alive in parts of Central Asia. It has left a solid legacy in Turkey, as well as remnants in Russia. The difference between these polities and European ones are often observed. The debt they owe to the Eurasian imperial steppe tradition takes us one step closer to accounting for these differences.

• Wigen, Einar (2023). A Pandemic, a Curfew, and a Resignation: The Politics of COVID-19 in Turkey. In Yenen, Alp & Zürcher, Erik-Jan (Ed.), A Hundred Years of Republican Turkey A History in a Hundred Fragments. Leiden University Press (LUP). ISSN 9789087284107. Full text in Research Archive
• Wigen, Einar; Azak, Nalan; Eskild, Ingrid; Jordheim, Helge; Lie, Anne Helene Kveim & Yerlioglu, Akif Ercihan [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2022). Temporal technologies of epidemics. Medical Humanities. ISSN 1468-215X. 48(4). doi: 10.1136/medhum-2021-012253. Full text in Research Archive
• Topal, Alp Eren & Wigen, Einar (2022). Diagnosing the State: Medical Metaphors in Ottoman Political Writing. Die Welt des Islams: International Journal for the Study of Modern Islam. ISSN 0043-2539. 62(3-4), p. 299–324. doi: 10.1163/15700607-62030002. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Abstract This paper traces the transformation in how Ottoman scribes, statesmen, and bureaucrats imagined the body politic from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century by focusing on metaphors derived from medicine and the human body. As others have shown, sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Ottoman political writing demonstrates a clear influence of Galenic medicine and Aristotelian and Avicennan metaphysics in conceptualizing state and society. During the eighteenth century, however, we see the adoption of a Khaldunian conception of society as an organic unity with a determined lifespan, something that implies a shift in emphasis from spatiality to temporality of the polity. From the early Tanzimat onwards, we see sporadic use of modern medical, disease, and germ-related concepts to explain the problems of Ottoman politics and society. Our argument is that instead of a sudden shift from a Galenic to a modern medical vocabulary due to the impact of the West, Ottoman political imagery gradually changed over the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in response to administrative challenges. In narrating this transformation, we also reflect on how examining metaphors can contribute to our understanding of conceptual transformation and, particularly in our case, the concept of “state”.

• Azak, Nalan & Wigen, Einar (2022). “Whatever They Say I Do the Opposite”: Vaccine Resistance in Turkey During the Covid-19 Pandemic. Medical Anthropology. ISSN 0145-9740. 41(8), p. 778–793. doi: 10.1080/01459740.2022.2142578. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Following a 2015 ruling in the Turkish Supreme Court, vaccine resistance has increased significantly in Turkey. Where childhood vaccination was once compulsory, it is now voluntary, enabling the transformation of Turkish lay medical culture. This medical culture rose in political importance during the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet, little is known about vaccine hesitancy and resistance in Turkey, and the interconnections with the wider political atmosphere in the country. We draw upon fieldwork conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic and explore the rationales behind people’s vaccination choices. We argue that vaccines encouraged by the state offer citizens opportunities for individuation and resistance to the more generalized coercive practices of the Turkish state.

• Wigen, Einar (2022). The Multiple Temporalities of Epidemic Endings. Centaurus. Journal of the European Society for the History of Science. ISSN 0008-8994. 64(1), p. 273–286. doi: 10.1484/J.CNT.5.129943. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  The beginnings of epidemics are often told as if they are simple to locate in time. They take the form of a crisis, and as such, function as great synchronisers of different temporalities, bringing social temporalities “in line” with biological ones. In the case of the COVID-19 pandemic, for example, political processes that are usually slow were accelerated in order to “catch up with” the fast pace of the virus's reproduction, as policymakers saw a need to contain the virus. The end of an epidemic, on the other hand, is more difficult to pinpoint. This can be attributed to the fact that the myriad actors involved in and affected by an epidemic operate on diverging time scales. Although seemingly synchronised from its outset, these lifetimes become un-synchronised as the epidemic unfolds. Some effects of an epidemic outbreak are easily observed, such as infection rates and the number of deceased. Others-psychological or medical after-effects, or the lasting memory in a population-may be harder to spot. Declaring that an epidemic has “ended” usually relies on the ceasing of the former, not the latter. However, as this article argues, the ending(s) of an epidemic should be regarded in the plural, each operating within its own rhythm and scale. This article explores the multiplicity of lifetimes involved in epidemics-human, microbial, institutional-and tries to give an explanation as to how epidemics end (or linger on) using an approach of multiple temporalities.

• Caraccioli, Mauro J.; Wigen, Einar; Lopez, Julia Costa; Cheney, Amanda & Subotic, Jelena (2021). Forum: Interlingual relations: Approaches, conflicts, and lessons in the translation of global politics. International Studies Review. ISSN 1521-9488. 23(3), p. 1015–1045. doi: 10.1093/isr/viaa019. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Abstract At stake in this forum are the politics of translation in the study of global politics. More specifically, the following interventions aim to consider the ways that scholars can recenter the utility of language toward more flexible conceptions of relationality. As each contribution reveals, translation is indispensable to individual theorizations of international politics; yet taken together, the forum aims to mitigate the alleged necessity of a lingua franca in IR scholarship. We go beyond the linguistic demands of conventional conceptual history in that each intervention employs a reflexive disposition to consider both their subject position and normative aspirations in the experience of translation. The forum's overall goal is to illustrate the ethical imperative to acknowledge the contextual specificity of linguistic encounters—past, present, and future—and in the process breathe life into the prose of world politics.

• Neumann, Iver & Wigen, Einar (2020). Response to reviewers: The Steppe tradition in international relations. Cambridge Review of International Affairs. ISSN 0955-7571. 33(6), p. 957–961. doi: 10.1080/09557571.2020.1838823. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This is the replying article to a symposium which was organized as part of our receiving the ISA Giuicciardini Prize for our book The Steppe Tradition in International Relations (Cambridge University Press, 2018), In reply to Michael Reynolds’s question of whether the ideal type that we draw up to capture Eurasian steppe politics vis-à-vis sedentaries along the steppe’s Southern and Western rim, we point to extant literature on China and its Northern neighbours, to works on the American plains from Frederick Jackson Turner’s essay ‘The Frontier in American History’ (1893) to Pekka Hämäläinen’s The Comanche Empire (2009), and to ongoing work on Colombian and Venezulan llaneros. We apologize to David Anthony, a key inspiration, for not having done enough on the Scythian contributions to the traditions, particularly regarding empires, and to Hendrik Spruyt for not having been more firm regarding steppe influences on the Carolingians. We end by thanking Jenny Wight for pointing out how her own work triangulates our findings regarding the importance of the Steppe Tradition for Turkish present-day politics, and defending our Durkheimian functionalist approach against’ Joseph MacKay thoughtful criticism.

• Issa, Rana & Wigen, Einar (2020). Levantine chronotopes: prisms for entangled histories. Contemporary Levant. ISSN 2058-1831. 5(1), p. 1–12. doi: 10.1080/20581831.2019.1710666. Full text in Research Archive
• Topal, Alp Eren & Wigen, Einar (2019). Ottoman conceptual history: Challenges and prospects. Contributions to the History of Concepts. ISSN 1807-9326. 14(1), p. 93–114. doi: 10.3167/choc.2019.140105. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  In this article, we discuss the pitfalls and benefits of conceptual history as an approach to Ottoman studies. While Ottoman studies is blossoming and using a wider set of tools to study the Ottoman past, Ottoman intellectual history is still resigned to a life-and-works approach. Th is absence of synthesizing attempts has left intellectual history in the margins. In addition to the lack of new, theoretically sophisticated accounts of how Ottoman intellectual and political changes were intertwined, the old Orientalist works still hold canonical status in the field. Drawing on recent developments in social and political history, conceptual history may be a good way of doing self-reflective longue durée intellectual history. Ottoman conceptual history may also off er nonspecialists more sophisticated bases for comparison with non-Ottoman cases.

• Wigen, Einar (2019). O Brother, where art thou? Kinship in Turkish region-building. In Haugevik, Kristin M. & Neumann, Iver (Ed.), Kinship in International Relations. Routledge. ISSN 9781138580558. p. 121–137. doi: 10.4324/9780429507267-7. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  While kinship is among the basic organizing principles of all human life, its role in and implications for international politics and relations have been subject to surprisingly little exploration in International Relations (IR) scholarship. This volume is the first volume aimed at thinking systematically about kinship in IR – as an organizing principle, as a source of political and social processes and outcomes, and as a practical and analytical category that not only reflects but also shapes politics and interaction on the international political arena. Contributors trace everyday uses of kinship terminology to explore the relevance of kinship in different political and cultural contexts and to look at interactions taking place above, at and within the state level. The book suggests that kinship can expand or limit actors’ political room for maneuvereon the international political arena, making some actions and practices appear possible and likely, and others less so. As an analytical category, kinship can help us categorize and understand relations between actors in the international arena. It presents itself as a ready-made classificatory system for understanding how entities within a hierarchy are organized in relation to one another, and how this logic is all at once natural and social.

• Wigen, Einar (2018). Post-Ottoman studies. An area studies that never was, Building Bridges to Turkish: Essays in Honour of Bernt Brendemoen. Harrassowitz Verlag. ISSN 9783447111232. p. 313–326. doi: 10.2307/j.ctvh4zh3p.26. Full text in Research Archive
• Jordheim, Helge & Wigen, Einar (2018). Conceptual Synchronisation: From Progress to Crisis. Millennium: Journal of International Studies. ISSN 0305-8298. 46(3), p. 421–439. doi: 10.1177/0305829818774781. Full text in Research Archive
• Wigen, Einar (2015). Two-level language games: International relations as inter-lingual relations. European Journal of International Relations. ISSN 1354-0661. 21(2), p. 427–450. doi: 10.1177/1354066114541878. Full text in Research Archive
• Wigen, Einar (2015). The Education of Ottoman Man and the Practice of Orderliness. In Jordheim, Helge & Pernau, Margrit (Ed.), Civilizing Emotions. Concepts in Nineteenth-Century Asia and Europe. Oxford University Press. ISSN 9780198745532. p. 107–125. doi: 10.1093/oso/9780198745532.003.0006. Full text in Research Archive

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• Caraccioli, Mauro & Wigen, Einar (2026). Interlingual Relations: Global Politics in a Polyglot World. University of Michigan Press. ISBN 9780472077861. 308 p. doi: 10.3998/mpub.14398297. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  International politics is often conducted in two languages or more, and since no two languages are exactly the same, what is possible to say in one language may be impossible to say in another. Translation is at the heart of global politics, and interlingual relations traverse time, space, culture, and state borders. Interlingual Relations builds on emergent literature on translation in International Relations (IR) to propose a unique research agenda for scholars of global politics, offering multiple directions and sets of principles for sustained study. The contributors use various methodologies to explore these interfaces and encounters in different sites, bringing together multiple subfields, approaches, and disciplinary paradigms across IR’s history. Together they offer a more truly global perspective on international affairs, going beyond the hegemony of English to demonstrate the interconnectedness between “high” politics and everyday life. They show the role of translation in global politics as one of world-making, whereby social roles, rules, and responsibilities establish the semblance of order despite not sounding or meaning the same to all actors. In establishing Interlingual Relations as a foundational part of IR, the book offers another key to studying global interactions and the high political stakes in the theories, methods, and ethics of translation.

• Leira, Halvard; Lahijani, Alireza Shams & Wigen, Einar (2024). Uses of Iver Neumann. Nothing international is alien. Routledge. ISBN 9781032708201. 166 p. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This book engages with the work of Iver B. Neumann, demonstrating the past, present, and future importance of his work as a central IR scholar who set a path for younger researchers to make sense of international relations beyond traditional bounds. By closely examining his work, some of the leading contemporary political scientists reflect on the eclecticism that embodies Neumann’s theorisation. Expert contributors engage in a critical review of his work on identity, practice theory, discourse, knowledge production, mentoring, and methodology, looking beyond the person to say something about the state of the field and the craft of research altogether. These reflections engage in critical assessment of the state of International Relations as a discipline, taking stock of theoretical and methodological challenges that scholars face, and reviewing the changes and continuities in knowledge production within social sciences. This book would be of interest to students, researchers, and educators working on themes of diplomacy, anthropology, popular culture, identity, foreign policy, and knowledge production and introducing them to the state of the discipline, key texts, and key developments over the past 30 years.

• Csato, Eva A.; Parslow, Joakim; Wigen, Einar & Türker, Emel (2018). Building Bridges to Turkish: Essays in Honour of Bernt Brendemoen. Harrassowitz Verlag. ISBN 9783447111232. 340 p. Full text in Research Archive
• Wigen, Einar (2018). State of Translation: Turkey in Interlingual Relations. University of Michigan Press. ISBN 9780472130948. 304 p. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  International politics often requires two or more languages, and the resulting interlingual relations mean translation, either by interpreters who are quite literally in the middle of conversations, or by bilingual statesmen who negotiate internationally in one language and then legitimize domestically in another. Since no two languages are the same, what can be argued in one language may be impossible in another. Political concepts can thus be significantly reformulated in the translation process. State of Translation examines this phenomenon using a case study of how 19th-century Ottoman and later Turkish statesmen struggled to reconcile their arguments in external languages (French, then English) with those in their internal language (Ottoman, later Turkish), and in the process further entangled them. Einar Wigen shows how this process structured social relations between the Ottoman state and its interlocutors, both domestically and internationally, and shaped the dynamics of Turkish relations with Europe.

• Neumann, Iver & Wigen, Einar (2018). The Steppe Tradition in International Relations: Russians, Turks and European State-Building 4000 bce–2018 ce. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781108420792. 318 p. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Neumann and Wigen counter Eurocentrism in the study of international relations by providing a full account of political organisation in the Eurasian steppe from the fourth millennium bce up to the present day. Drawing on a wide range of archaeological and historical secondary sources, alongside social theory, the authors discuss the prehistory, history and effect of what they name the ‘steppe tradition’. Writing from an International Relations perspective, the authors give a full treatment of the steppe tradition’s role in early European state formation, as well as explaining how politics in states such as Turkey and Russia can be understood as hybridising the steppe tradition with an increasingly dominant European tradition. They show how the steppe tradition’s ideas of political leadership, legitimacy and concepts of succession politics can help us to understand the policies and behaviour of such leaders as Putin in Russia and Erdog˘an in Turkey.

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• Wigen, Einar (2024). Natural History and the Preconditions for Governing from Afar. Millennium: Journal of International Studies. ISSN 0305-8298. 54(3). doi: 10.1177/03058298241277098c. Full text in Research Archive
• Neumann, Iver Brynild & Wigen, Einar (2023). Kronikk: Tyrkia har latt muligheten til å fremstå som europeisk og demokratisk gå fra seg. [Journal]. Aftenposten. Full text in Research Archive
• Jordheim, Helge; Wigen, Einar; Lie, Anne Kveim & Ljungberg, Erik (2020). Epidemic Times. Somatosphere: Science, Medicine and Anthropology. Full text in Research Archive
• Wigen, Einar (2020). Krisepolitikk og epidemier i Midtøsten. Babylon - Nordisk tidsskrift for Midtøstenstudier. ISSN 1503-5727. Full text in Research Archive
• Jordheim, Helge; Wigen, Einar & Lie, Anne Kveim (2020). Epidemiens tidsorden. Klassekampen. ISSN 0805-3839. Full text in Research Archive
• Wigen, Einar (2018). Taking Part in The Hegemonic Language Games of International Society. Full text in Research Archive
• Wigen, Einar (2018). The Temporalities of Orientalism. Full text in Research Archive
• Neumann, Iver & Wigen, Einar (2018). https://morgenbladet.no/ideer/2018/11/steppenes-politikk-hjelper-dagens-sterke-ledere. [Internet]. Morgenbladet. Full text in Research Archive
• Wigen, Einar (2017). Empire is What Middlemen Make of It. A Post-Ottoman Sub-System of States. Full text in Research Archive
• Wigen, Einar (2017). Hierarchy is What Middlemen Make of It. A Post-Ottoman Sub-System of States. Full text in Research Archive
• Wigen, Einar (2017). Turkey under Erdogan - a weaker state? (discussant). Full text in Research Archive
• Wigen, Einar (2017). State Legitimation in Turkey. Full text in Research Archive
• Wigen, Einar (2016). Reading Clocks Allaturka by Avner Wishnitzer. New Perspectives on Turkey. ISSN 0896-6346. 54. Full text in Research Archive
• Wigen, Einar (2016). Tyrkisk historie: En introduksjon. Full text in Research Archive
• Wigen, Einar (2016). Forskersamtale om Tyrkia under Erdoğan. Full text in Research Archive
• Wigen, Einar (2016). Hjemreiser: Forfattersamtale med Stian Bromark. Full text in Research Archive
• Wigen, Einar (2016). Nordmenn såret i eksplosjonen i Istanbul. [Journal]. Adresseavisen. Full text in Research Archive
• Wigen, Einar (2016). Migrasjonskrisen: En blankofullmakt til Erdoğan. Internasjonal Politikk. ISSN 0020-577X. 74(2). doi: 10.17585/ip.v74.454. Full text in Research Archive
• Wigen, Einar (2016). - Kan være et angrep mot tyrkiske myndigheter. [Journal]. Forskning.no. Full text in Research Archive
• Wigen, Einar (2016). Dødelig bombe rystet Istanbuls gamleby. [Journal]. NTB; Dagen. Full text in Research Archive
• Wigen, Einar (2016). Regjeringskilder: Ni tyskere drept i Istanbul. [Journal]. Dagsavisen. Full text in Research Archive
• Wigen, Einar (2016). Minst ti drept i eksplosjon i Istanbul. [Journal]. Hamar Arbeiderblad. Full text in Research Archive
• Wigen, Einar (2016). Tyrkia bruker flyktningene i politisk spill. [Journal]. Ukeavisen Ledelse. Full text in Research Archive
• Wigen, Einar (2016). Legger lokk på terroren. [Journal]. Klassekampen. Full text in Research Archive
• Wigen, Einar (2016). Forsker: - Visumfrihet kan gi tyrkisk migrasjon til EU. [Journal]. NTB tekst; Forskning.no; Klassekampen; Adresseavisen; etc. Full text in Research Archive
• Wigen, Einar (2016). Forsker: Tyrkerne føler seg glemt i møte med terror. [Journal]. NTB tekst; ABC nyheter; Adresseavisen; Harstad Tidende. Full text in Research Archive
• Wigen, Einar (2016). Mener IS forsøker å destabilisere Tyrkia. [Journal]. Dagbladet. Full text in Research Archive
• Wigen, Einar (2016). Her har terroristene slått til mot turister. [Journal]. Aftenposten. Full text in Research Archive
• Wigen, Einar (2016). Introduction. What is Politics? Exploring the history of a concept across the Euro-Islamic world. Full text in Research Archive
• Wigen, Einar (2016). The Importance of Translation in the Global Study of IR. Full text in Research Archive
• Wigen, Einar (2016). Tyrkia - vår allierte venn. [Radio]. På krigsstien – en podkast fra Forsvarets høgskole. Full text in Research Archive
• Wigen, Einar (2016). Key Concepts of Ottoman History. Full text in Research Archive
• Wigen, Einar (2015). ”Oss eller kaos”: Tyrkias tofrontskrig svekker kampen mot IS. ProPatria. Militærfaglig tidsskrift. Full text in Research Archive
• Wigen, Einar (2015). Tyrkiske sikkerhetspolitiske utfordringer. Full text in Research Archive
• Wigen, Einar (2015). Spenningen øker i Tyrkia. [Radio]. NRK Alltid Nyheter - Nyhetsettermiddag. Full text in Research Archive
• Wigen, Einar (2015). Spenningen øker i Tyrkia. [Radio]. NRK Alltid Nyheter - Nyhetslunch. Full text in Research Archive
• Wigen, Einar (2015). Valg i Tyrkia. [Radio]. NRK Alltid Nyheter - Nyhetsettermiddag. Full text in Research Archive
• Wigen, Einar (2015). - Folk mener Tyrkia går i feil retning. [Journal]. Aftenposten. Full text in Research Archive
• Wigen, Einar (2015). Valg i Tyrkia. [Radio]. NRK Alltid Nyheter - Nyhetsmorgen. Full text in Research Archive
• Wigen, Einar (2015). Valg i Tyrkia. [Radio]. NRK Alltid Nyheter - Nyhetslunch. Full text in Research Archive
• Wigen, Einar (2015). Spiller på religion og nasjonalisme. [Journal]. Vårt Land. Full text in Research Archive
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